Hobbit Version II, The
Platform: ZX Spectrum
Region: UK
Media: Snapshot
Controller: Keyboard
Genre: Adventure - Graphic - Text
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1982
Developer: Beam Software
Publisher: Melbourne House
Players: 1
Licensed from: J.R.R. Tolkien
Programmer: Philip Mitchell, Veronika Megler
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Relive Tolkien's The Hobbit as Bilbo Baggins. A piece of Interactive fiction (with graphics to illustrate locations), you follow the plot of Tolkien's book (before the Lord of the Rings trilogy), starting with an encounter with Gandalf and Thorin.

The implementation is rich enough that you can play entirely without pictures if you wish. Also, gameplay happens in realtime, uncommon for interactive fiction.

Trivia:

The original releases of The Hobbit also included Tolkien's full novel as an added bonus.

There is a very famous bug, that you can put yourself inside the chest, close the lid and still walk around in the game and look at things

